biggtim

Bummer, Winnie! My dad had colon cancer, too. He had surgery to remove the affected chunk and never had to go on chemo, thankfully, and made a full recovery. Very high rate of success, so I have high hopes for you!! Due to my dad, I started the "scopes" much earlier than usually recommended, and all clear so far! Tim

Whew, good thing I've built both a Hellcat and a 109E in recent years, or I'd be sorely tempted. If that Eduard P-51B drops, I'm in trouble though.

Boy, that is really coming together nicely!!

Looking good! That's an exceptionally nice piece of wood the stock is made from. Great tiger stripe figuring!

8 bit cat!!

I seem to recall that this has been suggested before, and did not happen because the purpose of the forum is "large-scale" models, not "large" scale models, if that makes sense. In other words, size does not matter, only scale does. Please correct me if my memory is failing. What was I talking about? Tim

I like the winter camo schemes too. I started that on my Ju87 that's still on the SOD.

Might I inquire what something like that is worth?

As the title says, he used to be the Owner of Scratchbuilders out of Elk Grove, CA. Anyone know him? Tim

Nice!! One of these days I need to build a model again...

Very cool, despite the bastard scale. 😁

Wow! That's awesome!

Makes me glad for my wacky family, problems and all.

So lame. I can't imagine doing that to family.

So cool!!!

I'd much rather visit VA than anything in Indiana, but I may have to wait for that one. Airfare from my neck of the woods is about 1200 bucks per person right now, so with lodging and food, I'd be minimum 2500 if I went alone, not counting all the stuff I would likely buy..... So highly unlikely this year.

I would LOVE to go this year, but I'm not sure I can afford it. I have always wanted to visit Virginia, so it would be cool to find a way to do it. If I could find someone to share a hotel room with or crash in someone's guest room who lives there, I might look into it. Last year's trip to Madison cost a LOT, and I'm not sure I can swing it two years in a row! BTW, where is it next year? Tim

I didn't do too bad on my Garand either, it was 750 from CMP, very nice service grade 1953 SA. That said, I still wish I could have grabbed some more when I was a kid.

Like buying M1 Garands, M1 Carbines, and M1As for 200 bucks back in the 70s and 80s at every sporting goods store.

Just finished this. I picked it up because I served at the same place the author did during the 2010 Haiti quake relief in the Dominican Republic border town of Jimani, and I worked with him a little bit during the events in the book. I was with a different organization than he was, but we hit town about the same time, and saw many of the same patients. Not the best written book ever, and maybe not super interesting to someone who wasn't there, but I liked it.

I have a set of those, just haven't made time to install them!! Just FYI, I sell those conversions....😁

Yep, but he's doing better than ever. Plans to be at Nationals this year as a spectator, not a vendor.

Yep, that's Gary of GT Resin, but he's at least 100 pounds and one leg lighter now. He looks great!

I found a few from Phoenix!!! Left to right: Brian Leitch (Out2gcha a@ LSP), Richard Alexander (then with Wingnut), Radu Brinzan, Maru, Smitty44, Ernie the Clunkmeister, my man Harv, Wolf Buddee, and yours truly. God dang, I miss Harv!! I so wanted to hang with him again!! Damn good times!!!

I suggest we post any photos here we can find of Harvey from Nats or whatever. I'll do that this weekend, as I think most of mine are on my external drive at home. So we can all remember the good times with him. Tim